[HPforGrownups] The Problem with Lupin (long) was Re: How Close Are Harr...

[Batchevra at aol.com]

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In a message dated 4/25/04 6:13:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, vmonte at yahoo.com 
writes:
Batchevra responded:
The mistake that you are making is equating curiousity with 
questioning. A person can be curious and still not question certain 
people. If you notice, Harry questions his friends, but not adults 
because his questions are answered by his friends but not by adults. 

vmonte again:
So why doesn't he talk to his friends about it?  Example: 'Ron your 
parents wouldn't happen to know what happened to my grandparents 
would they?'
Do you remember the first thing that Molly told Ron, Fred and George? In 
PS/SS she tells them not to ask about Voldemort. I figure that comes in. The only 
time that Ron offers information about anyone is in POA, is about Wormtail. 
Also the Dursleys don't want Harry to ask questions about his family, they don't 
want to deal with that, when adults don't talk about certain things, even if 
your curious, you stop asking questions, you start listening to anything that 
is said about you. If you get information, great, if you don't, you don't ask. 
I grew up that way, there was information about me that was kept quiet for 
about 12 years, it took me 6 more years to find out about it. I was told and it 
took a third party to tell me that the information was there. I was then told 
that had I asked when I was 12 it would have been answered, but since it was 
pushed down so many times, I never thought to ask.

Batchevra 


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